From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 07:24:41 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA01344 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 07:24:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA01339 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 07:24:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet3.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa04064; 18 Dec 95 10:26 EST Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 10:26:17 -0500 (EST) From: steve hovey To: Michael Smith cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot problems (was Re: Western Digital boot failures ) In-Reply-To: <199512181301.XAA07321@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > steve hovey stands accused of saying: > > > READ THE INSTALLATION NOTES! SET THE GEOMETRY IN THE INSTALLER TO MATCH > > > WHAT YOUR BIOS THINKS THE DISK IS. DO NOT GUESS. DO NOT PASS GO. > > > DO NOT COLLECT $200. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? > > > > Dont beat up the guy - you will continue to have to say this until there > > is a utility for this sort of thing. > > There are several. > > > It is not clear to most people (yes, that is a general sweeping > > statement) how one is supposed to divine the correct geometry. > > Because most people don't read the installation notes? No - because the ONLY thing in the install notes is to try a dos partition on it and hope sysinstall can figure it out from that. If you have a different set of notes, I dunno where you got them from. ------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Hovey -- shovey@buffnet.net root@buffnet.net